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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated August 11, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,370Score
Best open model
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram1,214Score
Best from China
Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance1,279Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,370
2Reve 2.1Reve1,324
Top three open models
1HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #32 overall1,200
2Ideogram 4.0 Fast (Quality)Fal · #33 overall1,199
3FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #34 overall1,199
This week's changes
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-PlusSpeech · #2New
Qwen3.8 MaxIntelligence · #5New
grok-4.6-highCoding · #5New
Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh)Intelligence · #7New
gemini-3.7-flash-highCoding · #8New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1▲ 1Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance1,279±9
2▼ 1HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,229±9
3▲ 1Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,228±11
4▼ 1Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,225±12
5▲ 3Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,210±11
6▲ 3Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,209±11
7▼ 2Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,207±11
8▲ 5Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,196±11
9▲ 3Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba1,181±11
10▲ 4Wan 2.7ClosedAlibaba1,174±11
11▼ 4Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,161±8
12▼ 2Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,153±9
13▼ 7Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,151±9
14▼ 3Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,143±9
15▲ 1Qwen Image 2.0 (2026-03-03)ClosedAlibaba1,134±8
16▼ 1Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,124±9
17▲ 1Kling Image 3.0 OmniClosedKlingAI1,118±8
18▼ 1Vidu Q2ClosedVidu1,115±8
19—Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance1,112±8
20—Qwen Image Plus 2601ClosedAlibaba1,104±8
21—Image-01ClosedMiniMax1,070±9
22—Z-Image BaseClosedAlibaba1,061±8
23—Step Image Edit 2ClosedStepFun1,001±11

Intelligence over time

Each maker's best model at the time on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, by the month it was released.

Gained most · Anthropic +57.2Highest now · Anthropic 64.6Gap between highest and lowest 18.1 ptsTime range Nov 2025 – Nov 2026
64.6Anthropic60.0Google56.9OpenAI50.1Meta46.5Kimi

Arena data comes from the leaderboard dataset it publishes on Hugging Face (CC BY 4.0). Only each board's overall leaderboard is used; scores and ranks are unchanged. dataset · CC BY 4.0

Artificial Analysis data comes from its API (artificialanalysis.ai). Scores are unchanged; ranks follow the scores. artificialanalysis.ai

Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.